Enoch West wrote:
I wanted to get some feedback to see what other people here use to manage their CentOS systems, apply updates, roll out new software packages, update unique config files etc.
I've tried Cfengine and I'm currently evaluating Radmind. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/
It allows you to do everything you just mentioned and monitor filesystem changes as well, like tripwire. Their documentation and mailing lists seem to focus a lot on Mac OS X but it'll work on any UNIX or UNIX-like platform.
Here's one command line tutorial.. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/files/radmind-tutorial-0.8.1.pdf
This paper might offer better insight.. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/files/LISA-radmind.pdf
Here is my first post to their mailing list from a couple days ago inquiring about using Radmind on RPM based Linux distributions. Check out the thread, there seem to be a few people using it on Fedora and RHEL. https://mailman.rice.edu/pipermail/radmind/2005-March/009240.html
Hope this helps.
Avtar